Folding hood for motor vehicles



' May5,1925.

1,536,069 w. H. l. BRADLEY FOLDING HOOD FOR MOTOR VEHICLES Filed Jim@ 12, 1924 2 Sheets-sheet 2 Patented May 5, 1925.

y .UNITED STATES ieArEnT oFFicE.

WILLIAM HENRY INNEs BRADLEY, or BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, AssIGNoR'To THE cALso Hoon coi/IPANYLIMITED, or covENTEY, ENGLAND, A COMPANY E GREAT BRITAIN. y i

FOLDING Hoon non MoToEfvEHIcLEs.

y Application led June 12, .1924. Serial No. 719,683.

i To all wiz/0m it may concer/a:

`Be it known` that l, VILLIAM VILIENRY INNES BRADLEY, a subgect of the King of `Great Britain, residing` at 28 Castleford Road, Sparkhill, `Birniingham7 in the county of lVarwick, England, have invented certain new and `useful Improvements in l-|`oldingl Hoods for Motor Vehicles, of which the following,` is a specification;

This invention relates to folding hoods for motor vehicles and more particularly where the `hood is supported at each side by a sing-le vertical standard pivoted in the body. i

As at present constructed the up'pfer ends oit' :these standards carry ahood stick or bow rigidly secured thereto or torined vin one piece therewith. In folding the hood it is necessary for this bow to clear the back of the1 body or at least the back of the rear seats, consequently the position of the pivotal point of the standard in the body with respect to the back of the latter is limited and determined by the height of the hood when extended. i

'lhe object of the present invention is to provide for cases where lit is desired to pivot the standardsso far forward as to allow for Athe provision of a window of substantial dimensions rearward of said `standard without making' the hood of undue height when extended and yet so that the bow will clear the rear seats when collapsed.

Accordingto the present invention the bow7 hereinafter referred to as the main bow, which formerly was carried by or formed in one with the standards, is carried 'in suoli a manner that it has a variable position with respect to said standards as the `hood fully extended and embodying` the present invention. i

Figure 2 is a side view ofthe hood mechanism in a partly `collapsed state.

In both figures ylike parts are designated bysimilar reference characters.

ln the particular application of the invention shown inthe drawings it will be observed, more clearly perhaps fromFigure 2, that the main bow 2 has no direct conuec# tion with tlievmain standards 3 but is carried independently by the linkage of the hood in such a ina-nner that it has a variable position with respect to such standard as the hood is raised'and lowered, that is to say, that as the hood is raised the main bow 2 moves inwardly toward the standard 3 until the hood is `fully extended when it occupies a position close to and preferably in alignii'ient with the said standard as shewn in Figure 1. As the hood is lowered however the `main bow is caused to move outwardly away from the main standard and when the hood is fully collapsed the said bow overhangs the back of the body or rear seats 4L as will beV `gathered from Figure 2. i

In `the construction shewn this relative movement of the `main bow is effected by supporting it at each end `by a pair of links one, 5, of whichfis pivoted at 6 in a rear extension 7 of the cantrail 8 whilstthe other link 9 is pivoted at 10 in an intermediate bow member 11 which is itself pivoted at 12 in the cantrail 8. y y j Preferably the two links 5 and 9 are independently pivoted on different .centres 13, 14 respectively to the end of the bow 2 so that any tendency for the latter to swivel out of position is eliminated.

In the type of hood sliewn the rear bow 15 is pivoted to the rear end of the intermediate bow member 11 whilst the front bow 16 is pivoted to the forward end of the caiitrail 8 and supported from the interniediatebow by the link 17. A lever 18 pivoted in the upper end of the standard 3 has its forward end pivoted in the intermediate bowl member and its rear end connected by a. link 19 with the rear bow meinber. v The several bow members which carry the flexible cover 2O are therefore all pivotally interconnected with each other.

It will of course be obvious that the iiivention can be applied to hoods having,` other kinds of linkage than that shewn. The arrangement in every case is Such that the distance between the bow 2 and the pivotal point 21 of the standard 3 in the body is increased as the hood is folded down so sie Ibei' pivoted to the rear end of said intermediate bow member, a main bow mem-v ber pivotelly supported from said cantrail and intermediate bow member indegendently of said standard and a flexible cover Carriedbi7 seid bow members.

2. A folding` hood for motor vehielesoomprising, a standard jpivotally mounted at er1- eh side of the vehicle, a eantrail pivoted adjacent the upper end'thereof, a iront bow member pivoted to the forward/end of said centrail k an intermediate bow member pivoted in said can'trail, a rear bow member pivoted to the rear end of said intermediate bow member, a mam bow member, links pivotally connecting thesame respectively with the rear end of said canti-ail and with the intermediatebow member, and va flexible cover carried Vby said bow members.

3. A vfoldinglhood for motor Vehicles comprising, a standard Divotally mounted at each side of 'the lvehicle, a eantrail pivoted adjacent the upper end thereof, :L front bow member pivotedfto the vforward end oi said cantrail an intermediate bow member pivoted in said fcantrail. a -link connecting the front and intermediate bow members, a lever pivoted in the upper end df said standard and having its forward end pivoted tto the intermediate bow member, n rear bow vmember 'pivoted to rthe rear end of said intermediate bow member, a link eonneeting'theother endof said lever with the rear bow member, a vmain bow member links supporting'the same vfrom the rear end olisaid eantrail and "from tbe intermediate bow member and a flexible cover carried iby said bow members.

:WILLIM HENRYINNES BRADLEY. 

